As some of you may know, Na(tional) No(vel) Wri(ting) Mo(nth) will soon be upon us! (November!) If you've never heard of NaNoWriMo, the goal is to write a novel, a little bit each day, over the course of the month of November. You can google NaNoWriMo to get the specifics! The general goal is to write a novel. You shouldn't care how good it is or whether there will be things to change later (because there will!), the goal is to JUST GET IT DONE during the month of November. Having something in a somewhat completed form means you can go back and edit it later, and fix all the problems. It also really helps with your motivation to see it done.

So, I'm posting this thread ~10 days early, so you can get this on your radar, and get your novel written! That's 10 whole days to decide what you'll write about, maybe find out what kind of characters you want, pick a genre, get a short outline put together so you'll know where to go with it once we hit Nov. 1st.

The nice thing about NaNoWriMo, is that you will have the moral support of all the others who are working along side you, trying to write their novel! That's what this thread is for, to keep track of progress and encourage each other.

Also, you don't have to write a novel! How bout an AMV? How bout a screenplay? How bout a comic? It could be anything creative, but let's work on it for the month of November, with the goal in mind to have it done by Dec. 1st.

I'll personally be working on the screenplay for my next movie. I have a big outline and everything, so I'm ahead of you already!

Have the basic structure of my novel lined out. Five POV characters, three acts, each POV character gets a chapter per act.

I've got three of my POV characters picked out, but I'm trying to decide whom I want to pick for the other two.

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I've been working on an interactive fiction/visual novel thing for the last 4 months already. By the start of November, I should finally be done with my preliminary work so, ironically, I might actually be spending November not writing but working on editing of my outline and on initial art.

The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…

I mostly ask because without the support and talking-about-it part, NaNoWriMo always seemed to actually be kind of alienating to me - i.e. its first effect was usually to make me realize that there's billions of people out there now who are literate enough to write something, and I wasn't that special D:

The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…

I'm down with doing this. Been meaning to start writing a screenplay for an idea that I had. While I can't guarantee I'll have a draft finished anytime soon, due to my 12-16 hour work schedule , at least it'll motivate me to get started.

Ehh... I'm horrible at finishing things. I have had a story idea kicking around in my head for a while, even have an outline and an intro paragraph. But, frankly, I'm not a very good writer. I know practice is really the only way to get good, but it's hard to motivate what even I view as not-very-good.

But I have a plan for November, and this fits right in. So... I'll give it a shot.

Kusoyaro: We don't need a leader. We need to SHUT UP. Make what you want to make, don't make you what you don't want to make. If neither of those applies to you, then you need to SHUT UP MORE.

To help encourage people in this community to keep writing, I'll post at least one sentence a day (preferably a paragraph, but I don't always get that much time) in this thread.

Sukunai, Real Canadian Hero wrote:Note to any Muslims present. Abuse a female in my presence, and you are being sent to a hospital emergency ward with life threatening injuries. And no human law will make me change my mind.